Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in India in May 2025

Investor	Payments India investments
Amrish Rau	17
Jitendra Gupta	12
Kunal Shah	11
Kevin Lin	6
Abhishant Pant	4
Ashneer seth Grover	4
Sriram Krishnan	4
Sandeep Nailwal	4
Kunal Bahl	4
Seth Weinstein	4
Vlad Tenev	3
Mohit Saxena	3
Ujjwal Sahay	3
Rais Motlekar	3
Rohit Bansal	3
Rajan Anandan	3
Rahul Mehta	3
Lalit Keshre	3
Rajan Anandan	3
Afzal Modak	3
Binny Bansal	3
Sujeet Kumar	2
Sumon Sadhu	2
Harsh Pokharna	2
Nitish Mittersain	2
Bhavish Aggarwal	2
Eric Kwan	2
Archana Priyadarshini	2
Ramakant Sharma	2
Shrishti Sahu	2
Vikram Chachra	2
Anand Chandrasekaran	2
Pei-fu Hsieh	2
Varun Tejpal	2
Vikrant Batra	2
Sachin Sinha	2
Sunil Kalra	2
Utsav Somani	2
Akshay Kothari	2
Kishore Ganji	2
Aniruddha Malpani	2
Sanjay Mehta	2
Sajid Rahman	2
Aman Gupta	2
Sung Ho Choi	2
Nimesh Kampani	2
Rahul Seth	2
Jaynti Kanani	2
Victor Wang	2
Alok Mittal	2

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Singapore, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Kunal Shah

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Abhishant Pant is a Mumbai based Fintech expert and has more than a decade of hands-on experience of payments landscape.He has spoken about the Fintech landscape via Ted Talks, Lectures at NUS, IIM and IIT’s and at various Banking conferences, he is closely associated with the Fintech world (as mentor) via incubators like Barclays Rise andwrites regularly on Fintech landscape opportunity and challenges.He is extensively covered by Media both India (TOI, HT, ET, Zee News, India News , Mid-Day etc ) and abroad (BBC, Dagnes Nayhter) and was recently named among TOP100 Fintech Professionals in Asia.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Zimyo — Zimyo HRMS automate HR processes & empower organizations to elevate their employee experience and enhance productivity.
ShopSe — Shop Smart with ShopSe Instant No-Cost EMI, India's largest Instant EMI Platform.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Ashneer Grover is the CEO and Co-Founder of BharatPe. He previously worked at PC Jeweller Ltd as a Head Of New Business. Ashneer Grover attended Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

TigerPay — TigerPay allows card payments instantly from your smartphone and is reshaping payment solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.
Zippee — ZFW Dark Stores enables 30 Min, 2 Hour, & Same-Day deliveries for E-commerce brands through next-gen fulfillment, network of dark stores, & last-mile infrastructure across India. This capital-light approach is helping brands like Epigamia, Unilever, Rage Coffee, NOTO, and Baskin Robbins expand without upfront capital, overheads, &headaches.Our platform integrates seamlessly with all industry platforms to provide brands with complete visibility into supply-chain ops & customers: significantly improving customer loyalty, RTOs, & costs.E-commerce is becoming increasingly competitive with shifting brand loyalties. Stay ahead of the curve & be closer to your customers by offering them super-fast deliveries.If you're a D2C brand in India that wants to boost profitability & customer experiences- reach out & say hi!

Sriram Krishnan - SVP Product, Marketing & Partnerships @ HeadSpin

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Goldcast — Goldcast is the purpose-built platform for B2B marketers to run more engaging events and drive revenue. Marketers use Goldcast to create a Netflix style user experience for attendees and provide actionable engagement insights for the sales team through seamless integrations
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Oyster — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Burger Bae — We are a sustainable streetwear clothing brand. Our vision is to diminish the line between high end fashion and streetwear to create a more unified clothing line!
Moderate — As seen on Shark Tank India. Clinically-backed formulas tested at AIIMS. Control post-meal sugar spikes, reduce glucose variability, reduce carb absorption and curb cravings with our science-backed, plant-based solutions for balanced energy and lasting wellness.
Speed Kitchen — Speed Kitchen offers licensed, fully functional kitchens that are ready to use on a revenue-share basis. Its goal is to change the food and beverage business in India.

Seth Weinstein is a Managing Member at ZAX LLC.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AiPrise — Combine identity verification, fraud protection and compliance in one single platform, allowing you to expand globally hassle free.
OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Bedrock AI — Real-time forensic investment research. Bedrock AI is a web-portal for stock research. We extract red flags from SEC filings based on machine learned associations with downside risk.

Vlad Tenev is the current Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HarmonicHarmonic. Vlad Tenev attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.

Mohit Saxena is the Founder and Group CTO at InMobi Group. He oversees all CTO's leading the tech at various InMobi Group Companies.Prior to InMobi InMobi, Mohit managed technology operations at Virgin Mobile, designing and deploying their post-paid billing system and their pre-paid revenue recognition system. Mohit earlier worked at AT&Tand has contributed to many patents filed in the telecommunications area.Fascinated by small ideas that turned into global powerhouses, and innovation, simplicity, and the potential of technology have always been his passions. InMobi is a both a passion and a dream come true for him.Mohit has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.Mohit’s passion for technology doesn’t stop at work and is always on the look-out for ways that he can use it to make his life easier.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FamPay — Sign up now to get your own FamCard and lots of rewards. FamPay offers a safe and secure banking experience for teens and their families.
Opentalk — Create, join and moderate private and public chat rooms. Chat and share with people worldwide in chat rooms and private messages. Chatrooms are a great way to meet virtual friends. Use pChat as a web chat app, or download the iOS / Android mobile application.
Factors.AI — Factors.ai is an end-to-end marketing analytics and attribution platform that integrated across data silos to deliver actionable, privacy compliant, AI-powered insights. Try now!

Ujjwal Sahay is the Founder & CEO of Ment Tech Labs - An Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider. Ujjwal backed Ment Tech Labs with $60,000 of seed round to start scaling the Fintech products globally which made Ment Tech Labs as the only complete Enterprise Fintech Solution & Service Provider.Ujjwal is a passionatetechnologist and successful startup executive with 5+ years of experience in Fintech Solutions Development, Engineering, and Marketing—focusing on lean methodology, design prototyping, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, and APIs. Ujjwal's leading advocated for customer-centric design, UX, and the thoughtful application of technological innovations. Ujjwal also led high-performing product launch, engineering, Dev-ops and QA teams—both on and off-shore.Fintech, Blockchain, Machine Learning & Cryptocurrency are few of his field of interest and expertise. Writing about the technology used to be his hobby always and this turned into a profession as well with two of his published books, Hack-X-Crypt and X-Shell.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ment Tech — Experience the power of custom blockchain solutions. Our blockchain development service is your gateway to innovation and success.

Rais Motlekar

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.

Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Rahul Mehta is a Co-Founder at DST Global.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.

Lalit Keshre is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Groww.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Theranautilus Private Limited — Theranautilus, is a nanorobotics company, translating the result of a decade of research and development in nanorobotics from laboratory to clinics. We are a hardware company specializing in instruments for fabricating nanorobots, safe deployment of nanorobots in living systems, and mechanisms to maneuver them to their target inside the bodyremotely.

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Smytten — Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products & services. Smytten also offers assisted shopping, and for the more advanced shopper, customised offers and ability to build their own wishlist for regular purchases.
Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.

Afzal Modak is the Director at VitalProbe Inc. Afzal Modak attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Angel
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.
Hydra Electric™ — Hydra Motors is a UAE automobile manufacturing start-up headquartered in Dubai, specializing in the plotting and modelling of electric vehicles. The company is also involved with vehicular design firm Hydra Design Labs, although they are not actually related.
Logo Infosoft — Logo Infosoft provides digitized and simplified solutions for MSMEs and Enterprises in the accounting, invoicing, and secondary sales (supply chain) space, while CaptainBiz helps MSMEs manage inventory, get invoicing organized and paid on time. J-Platform DMS is a comprehensive distribution management system for Super Stockists, Distributors, andDealers of various sizes and scales, offering features such as pay cycle, claim, inventory management, and more

Binny Bansal is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. In January 2017 he was promoted to Group CEO of Flipkart. Binny is fromChandigarh and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Curefoods — Curefoods democratizes access to food on a sustainable basis. They focus on operations management for cloud kitchens and the online food ordering market.
BorderPlus — BorderPlus, a talent mobility platform connecting blue-collar workers to global opportunities and providing full support in financing.
Sarla Aviation — We're developing India's most sophisticated eVTOL, driving innovation for widespread adoption in urban air mobility. Our focus is on creating an affordable, clean, and safe aerial travel experience, revolutionizing the way urban India moves.

Sujeet Kumar - Co- Founder @ Udaan

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
GoRally — GoRally operates a pickleball chain.
Pizza Wings — Pizza Wings is a pizza brand, known for fresh, high-quality pizzas and more, available for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.

Sumon Sadhu is the founder of Imperial Entrepreneurs at Imperial College London. He has been on the advisory board of Seedcamp and was selected as one of the top 10 rising stars in business in the UK by Courvosier Future 500. While he has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, he is a PhD dropout of Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

DataBrain — DataBrain creates a single source of truth for metrics for data teams so they can easily collaborate, add governance and operationalize metrics.
Yess — Yess automates your agency's inbound sales to win 10x more deals with AI sales rep Mia. Mia hyper-personalizes sales strategies, follow-ups, and proposals by analyzing context in real-time and leveraging the best-in-class inbound sales tools.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake & Databricks. We help enterprises understand, monitor, and optimize cloud data costs

Harsh Pokharna founded OKCredit on April 2017 alongside Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

BodhiAI — Are you looking for the best online teaching app development services in India? With the help of Bodhi AI, you can build school and coaching class management app and software. Teach online, coduct live classes, upload notes, manage fees and attendance, create and sell courses. Launch your own app and website in a min.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Gobillion — Gobillion is making E-commerce social by enabling customers to buy together in groups or teams through its "Team Buy" model. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

Nitish Mittersain is CEO & Founder of Nazara - a leading mobile games developer and publisher focused on the large mobile consumer base in India and emerging markets including the Middle East and Africa. In addition to developing a range of branded and original mobile games, Nazara operates unique services such as "Games Club" andalso serves as an exclusive distributor for key game developers such as Electronic Arts. Its customers include mobile carriers as well as handset manufacturers. Nazara also owns "Playcaso" - an iOs and Android developer/publisher brand, "nzLabs" - a work-for-hire apps studio & "gCity" - a social gaming platform.Nitish is also served as the Chairman of the Mobile Value Added Services Committee of the Indian Merchants Chambers - India's oldest business organization and has been widely recognized in the media for his contributions to the gaming and mobile vas industries in India

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lifechart — Lifechart is India's No.1 Holistic Preventive wellness platform that provides an alternate Healthcare holistic solution by practicing Indian values of spiritual therapy, yoga, ayurveda, naturopathy, organic nutrition & meditation.We are a team of young past founders & entrepreneurs who believe that society is moving away from medicines& are opting an alternate & a healthier lifestyle of self healing solutions Lifechart is solving for this pain by its verified online consultations through India's best authentic coaches.
Punch — Start trading options with confidence. Punch is a broker with single-screen trading & safety tools for part-time traders. If you're new to options, download Punch app.
WTF Gyms and Technology — WTF: Revolutionizing the Fitness Landscape in IndiaIn today's fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become increasingly challenging. Traditional gym models often fail to cater to the diverse needs and preferences of the modern fitness enthusiast. This is where WTF steps in, with a mission to redefine the gym experience inIndia and make fitness more accessible, engaging, and enjoyable for everyone.WTF aims to address the common pain points in the fitness industry by offering innovative solutions that combine cutting-edge technology, personalized fitness plans, and expert coaching. By integrating virtual classes, AI-powered coaching, and tailored workout plans, WTF creates a unique fitness ecosystem that transcends conventional gym models and provides a comprehensive, personalized approach to health and wellness.The impact of WTF's approach is evident in the impressive growth statistics of its partner gyms. About 50% of the WTF gyms have experienced remarkable growth of at least 70% during the last 12 months, while 30% have seen growth anywhere between 20 to 40%. These figures showcase the power of WTF's partnership and the mutual benefits that arise from their collaboration with gym owners.In conclusion, WTF is on a mission to revolutionize the fitness industry in India by addressing the challenges faced by gym-goers and gym owners alike. Through the use of innovative technology, personalized fitness offerings, and a strong emphasis on community-building, WTF is poised to transform the way India stays fit and healthy.

Bhavish graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2008 and worked at Microsoft Research for 2 years after that, filing 2 patents and publishing 3 papers in International Journals. Sensing the need to change the way transportation is consumed in India and create a choice of reliable personal transportation in acountry that's as unique as India, Bhavish quit his job in August 2010 to start Ola! Within 3 years, Ola is India's largest network of personal transportation options and also the most popular app amongst customers and users in over 22 cities of its operations. Bhavish was featured as one of Hindustan Times’ 30 Achievers under 30 as well as in the Forbes India list of 30 under 30.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Transportation
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
India

Portfolio highlights

Ola — Ola operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners in India. Its mobile application allows its customers to book a range of cabs, auto-rickshaws, bikes, and shuttle buses. Ola's mobile application allows customers to book city taxi, outstation travel, car rental, and corporatetravel services. Its mobile application is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms. Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal founded Ola on December 1, 2010. It has its headquarters with additional offices in Bengaluru in India.
Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
Krutrim — Krutrim SI Designs is an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that aims to focus on creating silicon chips and building a cloud infrastructure. The company is dedicated to constructing the nation's inaugural comprehensive AI computing infrastructure.

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot

Archana Priyadarshini is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Forward Slash Capital. She previously worked at PointOne Capital Fund 1 as a General Partner. Archana Priyadarshini attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Threado AI — Threado is the command centre for your online community. Measure engagement, get detailed insights and automate your operational tasks. Get early access!
Exprto Live — Exprto connects students directly with the IIT-JEE and NEET recent year toppers for personal guidance.
Metastable Materials — Metastable Materials which extract metals from end-of-life Lithium-ion batteries.

Ramakant plays a central role in driving all technological innovations that form the backbone of Livspace while also leading our operations team. Before founding Livspace, Ramakant was a core team member and Vice President of Engineering at Myntra, a leading fashion eCommerce startup in India (acquired by Flipkart). Ramakant, graduated from IITKanpur, and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Doodhvale — Doodhvale is a brand owned by Sanjeevani Dairy Farms Private Limited (Formerly known as Sanjeevani Dairy Farms LLP). Doodhvale is recognized as a startup by Department for the promotion of industry and internal trade, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. Doodhvale allows a customer to walk away from the doodhiya’s un-reliable& poor quality milk and also from the stale and processed milk of big dairy companies.Doodhvale not only delivers the high quality of fresh & pure cow milk but their innovative technology platform i.e. mobile app welcome an easy relaxed way of pausing milk supply for the day so or change quantity of milk required at any time etc. Customers can manage the entire milk calendar just in few seconds through doodhvale.com mobile app and track its milk delivery boy.The company currently operates in Delhi & NCR and has dairy products like Cow Milk, Buffalo Milk, Cow Ghee, Buffalo Ghee, Brown Bread, Taaza Dahi, etc. More than 10000 satisfied customers in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Sonipat and Ghaziabad enjoying Doodhvale’s product every day and striding towards the chemical-free life.
Truva — Truva is a proptech company that specializes in home buying and selling. We have deep expertise in Powai and provide an unparallel customer experience when it comes to buying apartments that are up for resale. We have multiple properties in Hiranandani, Lake Homes, Nahar and Raheja Vihar
Beyond Appliances — Beyond Appliances want to create appliances that not only make your culinary adventures more accessible but also elevate your kitchen environment to a place where you will truly enjoy being.

entrepreneur and investor in tech start-ups, crypto and public markets. Founded a fintech company, and was a part of the Investment Team of Lumis Partners (PeopleStrong, TalentEdge, Sheroes etc). Headed Startup Programs for Facebook for South Asia & India. Early backer of companies like Plum (health insurance for SME employees), Clickpost(logistics tech), Rupifi (credit for SMEs), WorkApps (Enterprise Collaboration), Chingari (Social Video), Kutumb (social communities for Bharat), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), 10Club (D2C e-commerce), UrbanYogi (mental health)

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Mugafi — Unlu offers pre-recorded certified online courses taught by Indian celebrities. Join us now and take your career to new heights by enjoying unlimited access to our videos.
OnFinance AI — AI Agents to simplify, streamline, and strengthen your regulatory processes. We currently support regulators like SEBI, RBI, SEC, FINRA, FCA, SAMA, MAS, AMFI.
Thermoflyde — Refractory

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner at 8i Ventures.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

YAP — API infrastructure for banking, payments & lending, facilitating safer, simpler, & faster money transfer worldwide. M2P aims to embed financial services into business value chains.
8vdX — Fine-tuned AI models for scaling credit investing workflows, reducing analysis time and costs by up to 10x, and setting a new standard in rapid, cost-effective deal analysis and monitoring with initial focus on MBS, ABS, CLOs, etc.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Anand Chandrasekaran is a Partner at General Catalyst. He previously worked at Facebook and attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
OpsLyft — The only cloud management platform that focuses on providing actionable insights for technology and financial leaders.
Fold Health — Crafting the building blocks of modern primary care

Pei-fu Hsieh is a venture partner at 01vc, focusing on investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. Pei-fu brings to 01VC extensive investment and operational experience in SEA. He has spent 15 years in Thailand and begins his career with Lombard Investments providing expansion and acquisition capital to companies in SEA.Pei-fu founded and heldthe helm of several Rocket Internet companies from 2012 to 2015. As CEO of Zalora Taiwan, he built the site to become a household name. Pei-fu soon went to find Easy Taxi Taiwan, which became the largest taxi-hailing app locally within less than one year. The final Rocket Internet-related company that Pei-fu served was as the CEO of Groupon Taiwan. Prior to joining 01VC, he was spearheading the expansion for Mamilove, a Social commerce platform into SEA including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia.He received his MBA degree from UC Berkeley, BBA degree from Chulalongkorn University and is a CFA charter holder.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

YAP — API infrastructure for banking, payments & lending, facilitating safer, simpler, & faster money transfer worldwide. M2P aims to embed financial services into business value chains.
M2P Fintech — Core banking, lending and payment services from the leading fintech startup in India. We empower fintechs, banks, and businesses with custom APIs for a wide range of financial services

Varun Tejpal is a CEO and Co-Founder at FourQ Systems. He attended Delhi University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.

Vikrant Batra is the Chief Marketing Officer for HP Inc. Vikrant has more than 20 years of experience in worldwide marketing and advertising across consumer packaged goods, utilities, finance and technology. He is an award-winning creative and marketing strategist and is the architect behind some of HP’s most transformative and thought-provokingcampaigns. Vikrant has held a variety of marketing leadership roles since joining HP in 2010. Most recently he served as Global Head of Marketing for HP’s $20 billion Imaging and Printing business. He is credited with spearheading the business’ shift to emotional storytelling – an approach that is anchored in insights, generates deeper connections with the global communities and drives demand. Prior to this he was the global head of marketing for HP’s $30B Personal Systems business where he led end-to-end marketing across PCs, mobility, solutions and services. Vikrant joined HP after a range of senior advertising and marketing agency roles supporting top global brands, At TracyLocke he was a Senior Vice President responsible for managing strategic brand planning, and at the Integer Group, an Omnicom agency, he served as Group Director. He began his career at J. Walter Thompson. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in marketing and advertising management from University of Bombay and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

DotPe — DotPe is a commerce and payments platform seeking to disrupt the payment experience by increasing customer engagement and offering catalog discovery.The technology start-up provides an offline enterprise business with a commerce and payments platform to drive digital transformation in the way they sell, manage, and engage their customers. Itenables businesses to sell more, sell directly, and sell more efficiently. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, Gyanesh Sharma, and Shailaz Nag, and its headquarters are located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Engineer, Entrepreneur, passionate about data, ML and AI. Author of one of the fastest and robust NoSQL databases, BangDB and founder of IQLECT

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Series A
India

Portfolio highlights

DotPe — DotPe is a commerce and payments platform seeking to disrupt the payment experience by increasing customer engagement and offering catalog discovery.The technology start-up provides an offline enterprise business with a commerce and payments platform to drive digital transformation in the way they sell, manage, and engage their customers. Itenables businesses to sell more, sell directly, and sell more efficiently. It was founded in 2019 by Anurag Gupta, Gyanesh Sharma, and Shailaz Nag, and its headquarters are located in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Sunil Kalra - Managing Director @ Via Projects

Investment focus

Financial Services, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series C
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chargeup — Chargeup is a full-stack EV Financing & Asset Management Platform. We enable last-mile drivers with ownership and higher earnings
Medikabazaar — Medikabazaar is an online B2B marketspace for medical supplies and equipment. They are a single point of contact for all product-based needs, enabling medical institutions and individual practitioners alike to cut down on operational costs and making the best global brands available locally, all aided with the miracle that goes by the name oftechnology. They are connected with more than 50,000 medical establishments, 1,50,000 Independent Practitioners, and have partnered with 13,000+ suppliers all over India including ones in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, and remoter locations to establish a strong foothold in India and simultaneously earn the respect of our clients. With the power of technology, we organized a haywire market in a country with perhaps the largest and most complex geographical structure in the world for this purpose. Our last-mile delivery system and 26 strategically placed Fulfilment Centres across India enable us to deliver essential medical supplies to healthcare facilities and help them nurture quality and timely patient care. With our first international office in the Middle East, we are transcending boundaries to deliver care, everywhere.
Pepper Farms — Pepper Farms is an agritech startup that helps farmers in organizing the vegetable production lifecycle by building a network of farms with end-to-end virtual management, customized agronomy, and direct market linkages.

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

Investment focus

Apps, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

Kishore Ganji is the Angel Investor & Mentor at Astir Ventures.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Bangladesh

Portfolio highlights

Lal10 — Lal10 enables creative manufacturing MSMEs to easily digitize, manage and sell their inventories for cross-border wholesale. Lal10 is Shopify + Alibaba for Indian MSMEs. Small manufacturers use Lal10’s Karigar application to digitize physical inventories which are available for RFQs on our global wholesale platform. We are creating a maker’srevolution by digitizing micro and small manufacturers to take their creative products to global markets. India has over 1.2mn such MSMEs involved in the manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, decor products. We have digitized 30k SKUs to date and are the largest vertical platform for MSMEs for cross-border wholesale in India. Post pandemic layers of middlemen/ export houses and traditional channels of sales like exhibitions have been disrupted. We have created an efficient alternative with innovative technology-led solutions catering to these large and untapped supplies. We are seeing strong organic adoption of technology for quick market access by local manufacturers and pandemic has only accelerated its requirement. We believe that the future of retail is local. We are targeting small & medium-sized buyers in the US, UK, and Middle east using efficient data analytics and aggressive marketing. We provide them the benefits of a big-box retailer, i.e. affordable sourcing, contemporary design curation & assortment of products. These buyers are resellers on Amazon, Etsy, or Mom & Pop shops, Private labels, and have traditionally been only dependent tradeshows.
Teleport — Planning a trip? Say goodbye to visa hassles with Teleport! We've made applying for visas online super easy. Explore our site now to get started now!
Monitra Healthcare — Monitra Healthcare is a Hyderabad based med-tech company developing solutions that capture cardiac events anytime anywhere. Our products detect cardiac arrhythmias and cardiovascular disease at real-time for pre-emptive treatments. Cardiac monitoring is widely used to identify heart disease, to monitor cardiac activity before and after surgery andother cardiac procedures, and to assess the effects of therapeutic drugs on cardiac activity. The Company’s vision is to dramatically reduce the effects of heart disease by making monitoring and pre-emptive cardiac care a seamless part of everyday life.

Dr Aniruddha Malpani is an IVF specialist who passed out from Bombay University, winning over 20 gold medals during his academic career. His clinic at www.drmalpani.com attracts patients from all over the world. He also runs the world’s largest free patient education library, HELP , at www.healthlibrary.com. He has authored 4 books – How to Get theBest Medical Care ( www.thebestmedicalcare.com),Successful Medical Practise, How to Have a Baby and Using Information Therapy to Put Patients First. His passion is patient empowerment, and he believes that patients are the largest untapped healthcare resources, and we need to use patient power to heal our sick healthcare system. He has pioneered the use of innovative technology to educate infertile couples, using cartoon films, comic books and e-learning on his website- www.ivfindia.com. He is an investor in Plus91 ( www.plus91.in), an EMR and digital marketing provider, India’s market leader for creating digital media for patient education, and is on the Board of Inventurus Knowledge Solutions, a healthcare BPO which provides RCM solutions for the US market.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Multibhashi — Best way to learn English speaking course, Learn Indian & Foreign languages from English & vice versa, Alphabets, Numbers, Grammar & more
Biomoneta Research — Biomoneta is a health tech startup that aims to prevent the transmission of infection in the hospital and the community, and the spread of microbial contamination in commercial and academic laboratories. Our novel, extremely effective air decontamination technology traps and kills bacteria, mold and viruses that contaminate the environment andcause infection and product loss. Our energy efficient devices can be deployed near patient beds in the hospital and home, in biotech laboratories to create local zones of decontamination, and can be integrated into central air handling units to provide building-wide protection.
Creditas Solutions — Digital Debt Collections | Delinquency Management | Debt Recovery

Sanjay Mehta is Member of the Board of Advisors at LogiNext Solution.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Nuo — Earn daily interest on Ether or get instant crypto backed loans
CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.
Coolberg — Welcome to Coolberg - The Non-Alcoholic Beer brand from India. Our drinks are malt based crafted brews without alcohol (0.00% ABV), and can be consumed by all ages. The perfect drink to blend in and celebrate with your family and friends, Coolberg is indeed The Drink For All!

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

Aman Gupta - Co Founder & CMO @ boAt

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Beautywise — Beautywise is a dermatology-led supplement brand with the purpose of empowering everyone to embrace unique beauty by embracing long-term, evidence-based treatments that operate from inside.
Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.
Lorien Finance — Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US.

Sung Ho C. is the Managing Director at Fubo Gaming. He attended University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
Estimated Inc. — A new world for artists

Nimesh is the Founding Partner at 108 Capital, a Growth-stage venture fund partnering with founders building digital-first, scalable and sustainable businesses. Prior, Nimesh was the cofounder at trica, a full-stack technology platform for growth-stage investments and equity management. He has been an avid Investor in private markets and is alsofounding venture partner for India’s first $100Mn revenue based financing fund N+1 Capital and also advisor & Board member of Campus Fund – 1st dorm fund in India

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Seekho — Seekho is a membership-based career accelerator platform. Start your 30-day trial and get unlimited access to Live Workshops, Courses, Certifications, Community to build your career in Product Management, Consulting, Finance, Analytics, Digital Marketing.
Koinbasket — KoinBasket lets you invest in diversified cryptocurrency portfolios and indexes with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoins and DeFi tokens on Binance, Coinbase and Huobi.
Intents Mobi — Mobile analytics, Logistics, Transportation, Fleet Management, Data Analytics

Rahul Seth is an Investor and Director at Antler.

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Payments
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States

Portfolio highlights

RevFin — RevFin is a digital lending company.
Homingos — Relive the special moments and surprise your loved ones with Flam. Why Create photos. Create Tangible Moments with FlamCard. Shop your FlamCard now!
Pixxel — Pixxel is a space technology startup that builds a constellation of advanced hyperspectral earth imaging small satellites. By capturing images in a 100s of hyperspectral bands, Pixxel is able to see things in 50x richer detail enabling organisations around the world to make better business discussions. Pixxel is leveraging the unique hyperspectralnature of satellite imagery to build a health monitor for the planet.

Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.

Victor Wang is a Partner at HOF Capital. He attended the University of California Berkeley.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investmentbusiness. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Helium — Helium handles the front end, and Shopify is the back end for Helium's headless solution. Your current Shopify integrations, apps, and data will continue to function flawlessly.
DigitalPaani — DigitalPaani builds cutting-edge IoT and digital management tools that redesign wastewater operations.
leap.club — we are a powerful and private network of women leaders.